Hawaii’s quarter is the first business strike U.S. coin to feature royalty or a monarch of any kind. The reverse of Hawaii’s quarter features Hawaiian monarch King Kamehameha I stretching his hand toward the eight major Hawaiian Islands. Inscriptions are the state motto "UA MAU KE EA O KA ‘AINA I KA PONO," ("The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"), "Hawaii" and "1959" (Hawaii joined the union as a state in 1959) Don Everhart is the designer of the reverse side. E PLURIBUS UNUM (Latin for “Out of many, one.”), the official motto for the Seal of the United States, is inscribed at the bottom along with the year of issue